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    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

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    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Mockingjay Delusions: The Hunger Games and the Postcolonial Revolution to Come

    Author: Jamil Khader, Ph.D.

    An earlier, abbreviated version of this piece appeared previously on Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/when-revolution-comes-israel-2013121112851708923.html The Hunger Games franchise has been hailed for spreading a new hopeful message of revolution to millennials[...]

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    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela, and U. S. Colonialism (English)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    (Articulo en español) Oscar López Rivera is a freedom fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico. He has the unenviable distinction of being the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in[...]

    Oscar Lopez Rivera

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela y el colonialismo de los Estados Unidos (Español)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Photo Credit:  © Lara Dotson-Renta, 2013 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (Article in English) Oscar López Rivera es un luchador por la independencia de Puerto Rico. Tiene la distinción nada envidiable[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Indigenous Feminism, Politics and the Importance of Intersectionality: A Conversation with Celeste Liddle

    Author: Maja Milatovic

    Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte Australian woman who lives in Melbourne. She is the current National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She has previously worked in[...]

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    Hamba Kahle Tata: A Tribute to Nelson Mandela

    Author: Thandiwe Matthews

    There is an overwhelming sense of pride that comes with being South African. Wherever I go in the world, the shadow cast by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela envelops me and my[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Feminist critique and Islamic feminism: the question of intersectionality

    Author: Sara Salem

    Introduction “Religion can contribute to a post-patriarchal world.” [1] The silence around feminism and religion is a profound one, and its roots lie in the metanarrative of secularising[2] that influences[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

    Author: Kelsey Norman

    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

    Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Points de vue arabes sur le postcolonialisme : Pour en finir avec le choc des civilisations

    Author: Ines Horchani

    Dans notre monde multipolaire, il nous faut, pour espérer avoir une vue d’ensemble, multiplier les points de vue et appréhender la notion de « postcolonialisme »  selon des lieux – géographiques, linguistiques[...]

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    Lampedusa: “An Island Full of Pain; It Carries the Weight of the World’s Indifference” *

    Author: Tina Catania

    (Photo Source: Arthur Urbano) * Translated from Lampedusa protest sign for Letta’s visit: http://www.giovanilampedusa.it/notizie/681-immigrati-barroso-letta-contestazioni-lampedusa.html Why should we care now? Now that it makes American news? Now that it’s translated into English?[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Toward a Political Economy of the Postcolonial

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Ever since the early 1980s when postcolonial studies was initially introduced to academia, the discipline has not ceased to grow. It has moved from its initial literary venture consisting of[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Histórias & Resistências: Famílias, sexualidades e juventudes no Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia

    Author: Helaine Pereira de Souza & Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti

    Las mujeres no solamente habrán de aportar relevante apoyo (para la construcción social), sino que han de tener un papel protagonista. (Asunción Miura, 2008.) Qual a influência de gravidez(es) que[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Inégalités sexuelles de scolarisation dans les régions Septentrionales du Cameroun : Recherche de facteurs

    Author: Hélène Kamdem Kamgno and Astadjam Yaouba

    Introduction D’après l’organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance, l’éducation constitue un droit fondamental indispensable au développement de l’individu et de la société, et nécessaire au bien-être (UNICEF, 2007). Au-delà de[...]

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